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  2. McGovern Centennial Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Type: Gardens: Location: Houston, TX: Coordinates: Created: 2014: Operated by: Hermann Park Conservancy: Status: Open year-round, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day [1]: Plants: 650 azaleas, 490 trees of over 50 species, 55,000 perennial bulbs, 760 hedge shrubs & 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) of grass [1]

  3. Japanese Garden (Houston) - Wikipedia

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    Part of the garden in 2008. Houston's Japanese Garden is designed in the daimyo style, reminiscent of gardens designed by feudal Japanese warlords.Emphasizing meandering footpaths, the garden's plan encourages a leisurely stroll throughout a variety of landscape elements and water features.

  4. Hermann Park - Wikipedia

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    One of Houston's oldest public parks, Hermann Park was created on acreage donated to the City of Houston by cattleman, oilman and philanthropist George H. Hermann (1843–1914). The land was formerly the site of his sawmill. [3] It was first envisioned as part of a comprehensive urban planning effort by the city of Houston in the early 1910s. [4]

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown ...

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    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas.It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.

  6. Geography of Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area , covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2 ), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2 ), or 96.3% ...

  7. Houston - Wikipedia

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    Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...

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